Senate Approves Liberalized Prohibition Enforcement Plan
Senate judiciary sub committee advances the House bill reshaped to ease enforcement while preserving core bans. It permits home production of non intoxicating cider and light wines, tightens searches, sets 3.5 million for first year, and tightens advertising and permits rules for pharmacists and physicians.
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Widow 63 Takes Own Life by Hanging in Medford Cellar
Despondent over ill health Mrs Martha Perry a 61 year old widow of 19 Chestnut street Medford killed herself in her home cellar yesterday. Her body was found by her sister in law Miss Mary Burrows hanging from a beam with a noose around her neck.
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Florence Reed Speaks on Labor Rights and Stage Image
Florence Reed criticizes actors’ pay with reform talk, arguing laborers deserve fair weeks and extra rehearsaI time. She disputes vamp roles, praises Bernhardt as exceptional, and reflects on American public tastes and Chaplin’s stage potential.
Florence Reed Declares She Is Not An Actress On Indian Island
Florence Reed, famed star of stage and screen, told reporters on Indian Island Sebago Lake that she is a laborer on the stage and not an actress. She relaxed with a novel as forest breezes tousled her hair, while a Postman arrived with two barking poodles disrupting the scene.
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Indian Island
Sebago Lake
Florence Reed Advocates Actors Union During Vacation
Florence Reed, on vacation at a Maine camp with husband Malcolm Williams, argues that actors and actresses must join a united labor union to secure fair pay and conditions. She defends Equity, condemns “bricklayers” as comparisons, and notes stars are made through hard labor, not born.
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Boston To Issue War Service Certificates To Veterans
Mayor Peters asked the City Council to appropriate 6000 for engraving and issuing certificates honoring Boston veterans of World War I. The black and white certificates will bear the veteran’s name and city seal, with Peters’s signature, and distribution timing to be announced later.
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Florence Reed Reflects On New England Vacation Image
Florence Reed muses on Maine as a working vacation spot and New England’s appeal. She imagines returning to the city looking refreshed after a two week break, noting the region’s charm and its farmlike simplicity.
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Llorence Reed
Boy Fatally Injured in Shooting at Watertown Home
Arthur F Foote eight son of Mr and Mrs William H Foote of 32 Purvis Street Watertown is on the dangerous list at Massachusetts General Hospital after being shot yesterday by his cousin Francis OBrien nine of Cambridge during a game of soldiers.
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Mrs Skeels in Methuen
Mrs Bessie Skeels Lundgren recently acquitted of murder in Lawrence was brought to Methuen from Andover. Her husband Alfred Lundgren said she had been moved on medical advice by Dr Percy Look of Andover. She is staying with Mrs Margaret Hooper who attended her trial.
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Tebbetts Named Collector for Maine District
President Wilson nominated Leon O. Tebbetts of Waterville Maine as the new collector of internal revenues for the district of Maine in an official act announced today.
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